Taking advantage of the sunshine tax

Kaz, Scott, the Kanes and I went to OB yesterday after church to soak up some sun, throw the frisbee, eat ice cream, and get pummeled by the waves.

I hate seaweed.

PuNK rAWk

What's more punk rock than a craft fair? Not much. And here are the pictures to prove it.

Taken at the UCSD Punk Rock Craft Fair

Pardon me, Hammer, may I touch that?

Red or bald?

This is the question that will plague our minds until March. After posting the Cats That Look Like Hitler link, I realized I forgot to mention a congrats to Josh and Alison Gubser (who currently reside in Colorado) - they are expecting the first human addition to their family (they already have 2 cats) this upcoming Spring!

Starlings

Taken from Rocketboom

Starlings

Cats That Look Like Hitler.com

Trailer Sweet Trailer

For those interested in seeing what I will be living in for the next year or so, here's a set of pics of my "new" trailer. It's a 1993 Terry Trailer by Kentwood. Great condition, A/C, stereo, full kitchen, propane, two batteries, outside shower, full bathroom, sleeps 5-7, and comes in at 24' long.

Purg's Bachelor Party

What's losing a bachelor without having a bachelor party? The exact going-ons of this party shall remain without definition, but you can rest assured there was much humiliation, gawking, immodesty, and indecency.

Testing trip

I took a trip up to San Jose for a wedding this last week and used my iSight, EvoCam, and Sprint's mobile broadband on my Powerbook G4 to take images every 5 minutes. This doesn't include every single 5 minutes (it's on motion detection), but it's quite a bit of the 9 hour drive.

Purganan wedding pics

I left my camera in the Niemeyers' car yesterday, but here's the first photos in a large set of pictures from Jeff and Mer's wedding over the weekend.

Chelsea's Birthday 2006

Last Tuesday we had a homage to Chelsea in OB. Dressing up as pirates, pin the boobs on the hawaiian, and a soccer ball piñata were enjoyed.

Happy Birthday to me

Thanks to everyone that texted, e-mailed, phoned, and morse-coded happy birthday tightings to me today! I'm up in San Jose/San Francisco and wasn't able to respond to almost all of my messages, but know they were well received. Last night was a time of general debauchery for the bachelor party, today was spent in San Francisco eating great food and enjoying the amazing weather, and tomorrow will be used in Santa Cruz beaches and wedding rehearsals (as well as a mangerie party). Woot, woot - the big 26! It's good to be past that quarter-life hump. Now I can get down to business, marry a business man, and start poppin' out children!

Never Ending Party

A couple new movies

From the director of Batman Begins and Memento (Christopher Nolan) comes The Prestige. And I can't wait.

The next is The Science of Sleep from the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry). Very creative and whimsical.

It's good to see, what appear to be, some well formed and box-breaking movies coming out. I assume we can all thank Sundance for starting this indy filmmaker support.

Monk-e-Mail

Chelsea and Renee clued me in on Monk-e-Mail:

Light Side Up

prank (prăngk) n. "A mischievous trick or practical joke."

Dream Log - 7-14-2006

Don't you just hate it when you're in the middle of a music video with G-Unit and it turns into an all-out gang fight during Christmas in the kids' nursery at Mid-City Church of the Nazarene? And of course they have to call in the military but your friends that are there are only worried about trying on prom dresses. Sheesh.

Zidane headbutts Materazzi

Mooning of Amtrak

Yesterday morning I made my way up to Orange County to check out a trailer for my project and on the way back decided to stop by Laguna Niguel. On Friday I was shown the website for the 27th Annual Mooning of Amtrak that takes place near a saloon. I stopped in for a couple hours and witnessed quite the wide array of people all ready and willing to show their dairy aires to the coaster. It turns out to be more of a biker rally than anything else, but entirely interesting.

How it started

To best answer the story of the birth of the Mooning tradition, refer to the Sunday July 11, 1999 edition of The Orange County (California) Register newspaper, and the article headlined as, "Full moon over Amtrak keeps Laguna Niguel tradition alive", as follows: Twenty years ago (1979), at The Mugs Away Saloon, a K.T.Smith told his buddies he'd buy a drink for all who would run outside to the rail road tracks and "moon" the next train, which many did. The mooning tradition has prevailed, but there is no longer a volunteer to buy free drinks for thousands of "Mooners".
Many many thanks to: The City Council of Laguna Niguel, The Sheriff of Orange County, OCRRA (owners of the rail right-of-way), Metrolink Rail Agency and of course, our beloved AMTRAK, for their tolerance and contemporary open-mindedness.

andy46477 gets bored

So there's this guy, andy46477 on eBay, that decided to start leaving feedback for items he didn't even purchase.

Superman Donuyor

Thanks to my Turkish friend, Al.

Coronado? More like Boronado

No, not really - it wasn't boring, that's just the only rhyme I could think of. Tuesday included a trip to Coronado with Erin, Jeff, Sarah S, Sarah B, Scott, Aaron, and Jess. We met up around Shawn's tower and had general frolicking fun in the waves and on the beach. After watching the World Cup at McP's Grill and exhausted ourselves on the beach I went over to the Gates/Bulgrien's for the roof-top fireworks extravaganza. Good fellowshippy times.

America

Freedom To Fascism

INSEX

Who THINKS of this stuff?!?

Ricky Gervais... Obviously.

I have some great news.

Ricky Gervais has his own Podcast. He also came out with a couple talks about corporate office values.

Video 1 | Video 2

Rocket & UFO During Radiohead Concert

I was there and I saw it!

Don't Hassel The Hoff

Thanks Jess.

sing-along songs

The Last Kiss

A Funny Podcast About A Sad Girl.

From the people that brought you Ask A Ninja, comes Hope Is Emo

YouTube - the Hall of Fame

The YouTube Hall of Fame

Wakeboarding with the Jenkins

7AM - Wakeboarding.

After the reception, we went to the hot tub in Poway and soaked in the glory of the Ritblatt's abode. Around 3AM fell asleep, and then woke up at 6AM so we could drive back to San Diego and head out on the boat with Rachel and Jason in Mission Bay. Good times. I'm tired.

Ash and Herms Wedding

Yes, the weddings just don't stop. No no, they don't stop. They don't stop rockin' til you stop poppin' and the poppin' don't stop til morn.

That's my '90's hip-hop song.

Ash and Herms got married yesterday, so we've had yet another weekend filled with excitement. And what a very Ash and Herms wedding it was! A few highlights would include the ring bearer kicking and screaming down the aisle, Herms using a Ring Pop at the ceremony, Ash hula dancing for her relatives, and those of us that stayed long enough to dance the night away at the reception.